People come up with all sorts of rationalizations.

You made me think of this nun we enrolled in an HIV vaccine study once. Even though she was you know, a nun, we still had to talk to her about double barrier birth control. Most awkward convo ever.

As far as I'm aware (through reading Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre and studying the Johns Hopkins Coursera course in vaccine trials - so relatively informed but by no means a professional in this area) women are only excluded if they are or become pregnant. I'm not sure if this is the case for "first-in-man" trials.

I think it depends on your television watching preferences. It's sci-fi, and it's silly, and it's thoughtful and emotional and fun. It spends a lot of time singing the virtues of wonder — for life, the universe and everything — and while it can be ridiculously cheesy, it's also dead simple to become emotionally…

Sigh. Just because you don't know any women who enjoy games as much as you do doesn't mean we must be "exceptions" to your (incredibly uninformed) blanket generalization. Good God. Women enjoy "social games" more because we're social? WTF kind of strawman argument is that?

dem eyes.